amphibology

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
24
Words With Friends
27
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/amfɪˈbɒlədʒi/

Definition of amphibology

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Amphiboly.
    “In Athens men learn'd […] to resolve a sophisticall argument, and to confound the imposture and amphibologie of words, captiously enterlaced together […]”
    “[T]he fallacie of Æquivocation and Amphibologie, […] conclude from the ambiguity of ſome vvord, or the ambiguous ſintaxis of many put together.”

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Etymology

From French amphibologie, from late Latin amphibologia, earlier amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).

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